Re IC and OC: Personally, I like being kissed first. Who killed Jenny? Ilene Chaiken killed Jenny, after she trashed L-Word.
Yes, I'm alive, if a little late to the party again. Nursing re-constructed right shoulder, working from home for next 2 weeks, and typing lefty.
Miss all of you like mad.
Love and sisterhood,
Alix K.

Lorie I am with you. Bette and Tina need to be in New York. Although I do not like that Bette had this emotional scene with the Sgt, it should have been with tina, I am aware that What IC is doing is opening up these issues, which is totally unrelated to who oft Jenny story, I know but wouldn't you just love to see tina and Better talking about this stuff come on....We want more don't we....
Bette sensitvity to how Tina sees her and her acknowledgment of her lack of mother is quite revealing and I wish it had happened soone but this is what I want to say Join us in a world wide campaign a campaign of wanting more L word a compaign of love. We loved these characters for 5 years and evern when we are angry with the story lines we love them so lets let them know.

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gosh you all are much more interesting than my books today. just want to throw a moment in for flashdance. as a butch who has always wanted to dance (now it's cool that i don't' 'formally' dance) and was quietly exited from ballet because of certain tomboy practices, the character's double life as welder (by day) and dancer-with-principles (by night) (not withstanding the close-ups on her thighs in the famous scene) meant a lot to me. true, the film had no story line. and i'm sure they cast JB as a welder because welding outfits are hot.

Thanks for your story Hammidi. I enjoyed reading that I'm sure they cast JB in the movie because she's naturally talented (and her looks helped too I'm sure.) Mystics and Longbeach and I were really just being silly.

I really shouldn't judge a movie I've never seen, but I guess I'm just not fond of cheesy musicals that are obviously rip-offs of better films like "Saturday Night Fever."

I really like a good, well-acted and well-told story. Otherwise I just get bored.

I just cringe for the actresses. Imagine all they put into the show, and then to go out like this has gotta suck. I can understand why Rose Rollins didn't hold back. Actually, she probably WAS holding back, and all we got was the tip of the iceberg...

I guess cute or attractive is an INNER as well as outer thing for me. Everything about her that I've read in interviews and seen in behind-the scenes stuff (and gleaned from reading between-the-lines when the actresses speak of her) leads me to say control freak. Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Streisand, for instance is a notorious control-freak and so is Scorsese. But the talent has to be in proportion to the need to control everything.

Good points and I agree about the ego. As I've said before, I've attended conferences with award-winning Young Adult LGBT authors. I've had lunch with Terry Truman, spoken with Jacqueline Woodson, Toni Morrison and Julie Anne Peters, to name a few. They don't carry on about their "groundbreaking and award-winning works" like Ilene Chaiken does. They don't use "breathtaking actors" like Jennifer Beals to draw people to a social networking site. The reason MySpace was such a world-wide success is because the focus is on the user...not on actors.

I always wanted to throw up when fans would swoon every time JB posted a blog.

I'll give credit where credit is due, but it stops there.

Anyhow, I do like to reserve judgment when I don't know someone....but the signs do point to IC having a bit of an ego problem. xoxo - PK

But Longbeach...Ilene's show is "groundbreaking, galvanizing and inspiring! It changed lives and changed the world!!" It's been the best thing for lesbians around the world since...well I don't know what.

Okay sorry I'm just being mean. I can't wait to see what Ilene and Jennifer have to say next Monday in New York.

Sooooo much crapola! Is there going to be a web series of interrogation tapes since The Farm burned?

What the heck? Bette emotionally distraught about having the baby? She's a bit old to be having her first baby, don't you think? Oh shame on me - it's not that she would have actually had a baby - it's the fact that Tina didn't consider her having the baby. Well, maybe Tina was thinking about the physical possibilities and ramifications of a woman in her mid 40s having a first baby.

And ladies, I know women have first babies in their mid 40s, but you know it is not common place and not medically advisable to do so.

AND Bette and Tina aren't talking to each other about such things? Guess things weren't that great between them after all. Thank goodness the series ended 'cause I didn't like the Bette we had at the end.

I do hope the good police woman gets paid extra for all the 'counseling sessions' with these women....

Off topic note - Just finished watching the complete series of Northern Exposure (way ahead of its time) - it lasted six seasons....with coherent story lines....and closure for all the characters....closure with possibilities....it can be done!

Okay, these things are SO frustrating. To not have any closure to Bette's storyline for this season, and then to watch what may be the last new clip any of us will ever see of her, only to find it bears absolutely no relevance to any of the lingering questions about her... GAH!

I dunno, maybe they figure there are so many loose threads at this point that no one will notice one more tangential vignette leading absolutely nowhere.

I got so excited to see Bette again, though. On a positive note, I think that excitement confirmed for me that she's my favorite character. I'm excited about seeing Jennifer on Lie To Me this season, too.

I tried to watch "Lie to Me" last week because I'm excited to see Jennifer in it, but I found the show to be very predictable and a bit cheesy. The body language of the people lying is so obvious and "over-the-top" that it's as if the director/producer has little confidence in the intelligence and astuteness of the audience. Then again, I'm I've seen and read so many things that maybe I've just seen all of the stories people are coming up with.

Anyone else watching "Life on Mars"? And if so, were you as disappointed in the final scene of the final episode as I was? We got closure, sure. I just thought it was trite and predictable. I'm saying predictable in spite of the fact that I had not imagined that that might be the truth of his story.